# Tree huggin' dirt worshipping protestors...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-huggin-dirt-worshipping-protestors/463734>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-huggin-dirt-worshipping-protestors/463734 "2008-09-15T20:17:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-huggin-dirt-worshipping-protestors/463734/41 "2008-09-16T15:15:02Z")

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> [@neutron\_star](#):
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> Sorry, what was that you said about growing up?

That was just for _other_ people. I’m growing older, but I refuse to grow up. 😉

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**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-huggin-dirt-worshipping-protestors/463734/42 "2008-09-16T15:31:55Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> No, they’ll just call him an Uncle Tom or a House Nigger or whatever crap they come up with next week. Movement Freaks always find reasons to harass people who want to erode their power base.
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> (It’s interesting how none of the Movement Freaks seem to realize they exist at the pleasure of the majority and could be destroyed utterly with a relatively minor shift in sentiment. PETA in particular refuses to take the hint.)

Ohhhh, good sweet fucking god, I _loathe_ PETA for being six times louder (amplified by stupidity) than us sane animal-rights types. As someone who does have an interest in animal rights and is, wholly coincidentally, a vegetarian, PETA fills me with absolute rage.

And they get bonus hatred points because sometimes their crazy counterparts in the feminist world get all worked up because “Ohmygod, PETA is using sexual appeal to try to make a point, whatever the fuck their point is, look naked women EXPLOITATION!” and then I need to decide who I hate more, the radical idiot feminists or the radical idiot PETA-types, and it gives me heartburn.

Also: dear all wannabe hippies, _stop with the fucking patchouli oil, you smell like ass._

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**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-huggin-dirt-worshipping-protestors/463734/43 "2008-09-16T16:42:37Z")

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Was she from **NYPIRG**?

I sublet to a girl who worked for NYPIRG (whilst I was also living in the apartment) - in Ithaca. Man, was she fucking annoying. She kept extremely weird hours, smelled bad, and would get stoned and eat half a jar of peanut butter and leave tonnes of dirty dishes in the sink.  
And from the way she told it, she had to drive everywhere. Real environmentally sound…

Not a happy renter-cum-landlord, was I.

D.  
Cornell '04

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